Wildguzzi.com
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: John A on January 14, 2017, 10:29:52 AM
-
For me it was a cattle grate at an intersection with some oil on it and wet from rain. Put me down as I set up a left hand turn. Next was anti freeze over oil at an intersection near freezing . I didn't go down but my friend did. Sometimes ice is not so bad, just be smooth with throttle and brake. Spilt diesel fuel is surprising. Anything else?
-
Hard-packed snow on the road to the 14th century Gergeti Trinity Church in the Caucasus mountains of northern (Republic of) Georgia.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Ride-Around-The-Planet/Georgia/i-VdCxDxZ/0/O/RoadToChurch.jpg)
Shinko 705s on my DR650 said "no way, Jose". So I hiked the rest of the way. Worth the effort:
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Ride-Around-The-Planet/Georgia/i-XSs5FKT/0/O/Church.jpg)
-
Automatic transmission fluid spilled on the road.
I live in horse-and-buggy country; horse manure is a close second.
-
A lake.
-
There was a member here who crashed on avocado innards , maybe someone can find the story .
Probably the slipperiest thing I've ever successfully ridden on was a series of new bridges on highway 456 in New Mexico after several days of rain . The first 25 FT of new concrete was covered in a layer of gook and mud tracked in from the dirt highway . Cue Rocker and his pics of the road in dry conditions .
Dusty
-
Ice.
(http://www.scramblercycle.com/uploads/3/8/9/5/3895611/943353949.jpg?897)
-
Low of 5, high of eight, three four days in a row... but no snow or ice. I fire up the big beemer bagger and head up to Concord Pike for a business appt. Main divided business thoroughfare, three lanes each way, shopping centers and stoplights all long. Turned left, bingo: a water main had broken in the median. Water gushing both ways. Cars tracking water a quarter mile each way from the leak all three lanes. Black ice with new water on top. 700 lbs of big awkward bagger. Boots as outriggers.
So much fun I went ahead and returned the same route.
ABS rocks, BTW.
-
Maybe not the slipperiest, but I was surprised recently when I was taking an off-camber corner and rode over a man-hole cover. It had been "polished by being driven over so much, It was a quick slip and I was able to recover easily, but surprised.
Also not the slipperiest, but those metal grates on bridges for expansion freak me out sometimes.
-
Roads in Virginia currently. Apparently the State has a huge surplus of sand this year.............
-
Not the most obvious, but riding to work one morning about a week ago, it was cold, wet and dark and I went over a small sheet of cardboard which had been pulped by passing traffic. It was on a bend so I was leaning over a wee bit and the front end slid across a foot or so. No great drama but it certainly woke me up.
-
Diesel spill on ice.
-
Tar snakes on a hot day.
-
1. Black Ice. Unsuccessfully, I might add.
2. Radiator coolant, also unsuccessfully.
3. Car Wash water in the street. Got through that one with some theatrics.
-
Fresh rain lifting six months of untouched oil from Las Vegas roads, onto the nice white road paint...
-
Tar snakes on a hot day.
Fresh tar snakes on a curvy road. :rolleyes: We(2 up) caught up with the crew that was laying the fresh tar. It was a norCal hiway we were riding west on that when riding east on it had a completely different personality in that when riding west on it there were curves you weren't aware of until you crested a spot in the road and suddenly found out then it was the beginning of a curve left or right! :shocked: Going east on the same spot you had straight road after finishing the uphill curve. The tar crew were oblivious what they were setting up for a MC rider. :thewife:
-
Suzuki Hyabusa !!!
-
A large gasoline spill in the Homoco gas station near the U of MD. I didn't know it was there until I was leaving the station, and did several slow motion drifts before I got out of it.
-
Snow. Actually fell once.
Successfully; One morning on the way to work, very cold, very humid. Hoare frost on the bridge railing (white fluffy stuff) and I came up to the Blatnik Bridge with my mechanic on the back. Once the bridge had air under it the surface looked very slippery. In fact I could see car tracks that merged, crossed and diverged. Tanker truck following about 200 yards behind me so I couldn't slow, couldn't steer. Just had to maintain.
Later my mechanic told me he took he feet off the pegs and slid them on the road. Like snot.
I swore by Metzlers after that!
-
Later my mechanic told me he took he feet off the pegs and slid them on the road. Like snot.
I did that once on my RD350, after being warned by a State Trooper I was approaching ice and didn't know it. I backed off the throttle and stuck my legs out like outriggers. It got me across the invisible ice, unlike a couple cars before me. :thumb:
-
Bailey bridge with metal plate deck in the rain.
-
You've all named things that have affected me at one time or another, save one: wet leaves over algae on the shady part of an asphalt road...like motor oil on glass!
-
You've all named things that have affected me at one time or another, save one: wet leaves over algae on the shady part of an asphalt road...like motor oil on glass!
You just opened up my memory...........in `67 riding my 305 Yamaha I went over slippery pavement on Oahu, Hawaii that felt like ice but instead it was algae I couldn't even see. Had to go back to figure out what /why happened. It was an area that didn't get any sunlight due to all the greenery.
-
Tar snakes are a given. Most towns around here add sand so its tolerable but one town skips the sand and those are like grease.
One time though I was on my LeMans on road that crossed a railroad track on an S curve. The crossing was covered with metal diamond plate and it was raining. When I changed direction the back end slid out and I thought I might have broken my wrists. There weren't broken but were pretty sore for a couple of days.
Pete
-
Hundreds of frogs. Evidently it was some sort of mass road-crossing event I stumbled through. First I was confused, next I was disgusted, and last I was unnerved since I was barely able to keep her upright. I haven't been down that particular stretch of county road since. :sad:
-
Humility, in the form of long wet grass under both of my airborne tires of an obsessively heavy r60 driven skyward by a college hold my beer attitude. Didn't get the girl either...it pretty much hit me, everywhere...and was not intimidated by my skull, shins, ribs, blood and bone resistance...we took a short break in our relationship together.
-
Black ice during the winter in Dallas, TX
-
This thing. With virtually no forward speed, the front end slid out on the smooth steel deck covered in water and oil and diesel fuel and Pete's yellow Griso dropped to the ground, well-protected by the cushioning my leg. Sheesh.
(http://www.dankalal.net/2007trip15/photo140.JPG)
Lesson learned, and I am now super, super careful whenever I'm rolling (or even walking) on the steel deck of a ferry.
(http://www.dankalal.net/2007trip15/photo152.JPG)
-
There's this stuff called black algae that grows in wet low water crossings in Texas. Makes Astro Glide seem sticky.
-
Humility, in the form of long wet grass under both of my airborne tires of an obsessively heavy r60 driven skyward by a college hold my beer attitude. Didn't get the girl either...it pretty much hit me, everywhere...and was not intimidated by my skull, shins, ribs, blood and bone resistance...we took a short break in our relationship together.
A former work supervisor broke his collarbone when starting out for work on his bike on wet grass once. :evil:
-
I forgot about trillions of mayflies on bridge decks over the Mississippi .and the thousands of frogs up near Leech lake very slimy but I didn't go down!
-
The old Sunshine Skyway Bridge, running a Yamaha dirt bike with knobbies. (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yl0-hHGI6AI/UqgJEl7KHYI/AAAAAAAAANk/eaMRR42-1SU/s1600/A4S_skyway050910_c_120809a_8col.jpg)
-
This thing. With virtually no forward speed, the front end slid out on the smooth steel deck covered in water and oil and diesel fuel and Pete's yellow Griso dropped to the ground, well-protected by the cushioning my leg. Sheesh.
(http://www.dankalal.net/2007trip15/photo140.JPG)
Lesson learned, and I am now super, super careful whenever I'm rolling (or even walking) on the steel deck of a ferry.
(http://www.dankalal.net/2007trip15/photo152.JPG)
So how was your Tassie trip then ?
-
Oil, and lots of it. Went down so fast I can't remember it happening. I remember sliding a long way. I also remember three of us could not keep our feet to lift the bike up. We had to drag it off the road the best we could and get out of the stuff before we could keep our footing to lift it.
Wet cow sh*t is pretty slippery too. :shocked:
-
So how was your Tassie trip then ?
Beautiful.
-
Clay for me though a mate would probably say the Kero
that leaches out of fresh Asphalt.
Maurie.
-
https://s27.postimg.org/aykody05f/IMG_20170115_160630.jpg
Without a doubt this 25 foot wet,algae covered walk way on my property.
Goofing around on my dr650 and tried to rear brake and turn and I
went down fast. Wasnt hurt but sure did scare my mule!
-
When I rode my dirt bikes in Oregon, some places there was this light brown clay? that was impossible for anything to stay upright on. There would just be little round part of it but if your or your bike wheel got on it, you went down. :evil:
But the fastest time I ever went down was my 1st time road racing on Oahu, Hawaii on a drag strip/road race track on my 305 Yamaha twin at the end of the straight away. 1 moment I was upright, the next moment I was laying on the side of my bike. :huh: What had happened is between the air pressure I put in the front tire & the heat transferred from jamming on my front drum brake thru the spokes to the tube was enough air pressure rise to BLOW the metal valve stem off the tube!!!, which stopped me from moving forward real quick as I began turning left in the corner! Luckily when it all happened I was hardly traveling forward so I didn't get hurt at all. This was my 1st road race (`66) so I learned from it.
-
Black ice is pretty bad stuff and once you're on it you know. It goes very quiet, etc. You can just feel it. A long time ago a college friend of mine was coming into college when he was aware that he'd hit some. "Okay", he thought, "so long as I stay upright and don't change speed or direction I might get away with this". Then a cop stood out in the middle of the road and put his arm out for him to stop. As my buddy was lying in the road looking up at the cop, the cop said to him "I just wanted to warn you that there's black ice here". Luckily the bike was only a Yamaha DT175 so it didn't do too much damage.
-
Black ice is pretty bad stuff and once you're on it you know. It goes very quiet, etc. You can just feel it. A long time ago a college friend of mine was coming into college when he was aware that he'd hit some. "Okay", he thought, "so long as I stay upright and don't change speed or direction I might get away with this". Then a cop stood out in the middle of the road and put his arm out for him to stop. As my buddy was lying in the road looking up at the cop, the cop said to him "I just wanted to warn you that there's black ice here". Luckily the bike was only a Yamaha DT175 so it didn't do too much damage.
Helpful cop, eh? :rolleyes:
-
This thing. With virtually no forward speed, the front end slid out on the smooth steel deck covered in water and oil and diesel fuel and Pete's yellow Griso dropped to the ground, well-protected by the cushioning my leg. Sheesh.
(http://www.dankalal.net/2007trip15/photo140.JPG)
Lesson learned, and I am now super, super careful whenever I'm rolling (or even walking) on the steel deck of a ferry.
(http://www.dankalal.net/2007trip15/photo152.JPG)
Did the deck/ramp also come with helpful 1/2" x 1/2" steel bars (sometimes at 45 degrees) welded to it about 6" apart to "improve grip"?
The fun part about these though is that you can't even slide your feet along for a tad more stability
I hate wet ferry ramps
-
Was riding last year in tomato farm country in western Buncombe County (yes, the name of this county is the origin of the slang term 'bunk' or 'bunkum' https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bunkum), and the front end got loose. It was dry, hot, no tar strips, and I was going SLOW around a curve, like 10-15mph. Went back to see what happened and there was very fine clay dust on the road which blew in from the farm. Knock on wood the only time I've lost control of the front tire.
-
Gumbo mud Osage river valley in Missouri. On a gas gas txt 280.
-
Tar snakes on a hot day.
Yeah. Those suck.
-
Yeah. Those suck.
New Mexico 58 and 64 between Eagles Nest and I 25 are a tar snake nightmare .
Dusty
-
Poo
-
Snow and ice on an RZ350 with Pirelli Phantoms on it,ill walk next time lol
-
crushed acorns and some not so crushed in the NC mountains
wet tar snakes
wet white arrows and wet white/yellow lines
random sticks in tight turns
whatever that crap is they use on dirt roads in Alaska (calcium carbonate?) - when wet
the wet and oily steel grate in the middle of the 2 mile long Whittier tunnel
any surface at all when my rear tire is past worn out and I'm too cheap to buy a new one
these are not necessarily in order :rolleyes:
I don't ride on ice :blank:
-
Strangely, in light of the "what makes ice slippery" thread, it was extremely cold ice that was most slippery for me. I'd been commuting on frozen snow/ice all winter so didn't see any problem when it turned 20 below zero (F). But when got a quarter mile from my house I found I could barely keep the bike upright even when hardly moving at all. I shuffled it around and went back home.
I guess there was another time when I didn't see a patch of ice on a city street corner. Both wheels shot left, but I stabbed my right foot down and saved it. So no big deal.
I used to commute at night to my job in high school, on ice, and kept up the practice on and off until 6 or 7 years ago. I quit because of the effects of salt on my bike.
-
Gasoline when the stupid fuel line crossover pulls apart and dumps fuel on your rear time. :evil: Don't say I haven't warned you..
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c294/elwood59/1-rally%20010_zpsvp5vyu9t.jpg) (http://s29.photobucket.com/user/elwood59/media/1-rally%20010_zpsvp5vyu9t.jpg.html)
-
I'm reliably informed that when I was 2 years old I soiled my nappy/ diaper while on a big journey to the front gate, about 35 metres as I recall, on my Cyclops trike, heavily loaded with gear ( pacifier/dummy and jam sandwich in the front basket, the end of the path came up damn sudden at the speed I was doing and she got a bit sideways. Hit the front 2" drum brake hard at 4 kph and skidded inside the garment. That was slippery by all accounts and not exactly cold..Outt'a my depth on a big trip, nothing much has changed. Just sayin'.
-
Mount St. Helens ash in 1980. Like riding on Grease..Ice storm is 1973-72 was about the same, but different..
-
Poo
YEP..... fricken cow pies.... left on the road when they do a drive from one pasture to another, not only very slick but they stink and stick to everything.
-
There was a member here who crashed on avocado innards , maybe someone can find the story - Dusty
That was [Semper-Guzzi] of Fallbrook CA, now code-named " Guacamole ".
As for me, frogs were gross but not slippery.
I did have a moss go-down, six inches of slow moving water over a concrete stream crossing - I got no further than one bike length into it at low speed and it was all over.
While I was moping an onlooker told me not to feel bad, the day before the same spot took a full size truck with camper shell off the road and it had to get winched out.
-
You bring your guitar
I'll bring the wine
gonna tripe my guacamole baby
one more time
Dusty
-
Clay for me though a mate would probably say the Kero
that leaches out of fresh Asphalt.
Maurie.
Agreed.....wet gray clay...snot